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Earth Science Week: "Geology helps the land tell you stories"

Earth Science Week: “Geology helps the land tell you stories” It’s this year’s Earth Science Week - see the American Geosciences Institute and Geological Societ...

October 1, 2016 10 min read

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October 2016

October 2016 It’s this year’s Earth Science Week - see the American Geosciences Institute and Geological Society of London sites). I have periodically attempted...

October 1, 2016 9 min read

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Please read this

Please read this Erik Klemetti is an assistant professor of Geosciences at Ohio’s Denison University and he writes Eruptions , a blog about all things volcanic...

September 1, 2016 9 min read

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"No one actually studies sand" - misconceptions and science literacy

For one reason or another (likely to be discussed in a future post), I have been working on an essay that attempts to address cross-cultural aspects of viewing...

July 1, 2016 4 min read

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"The Sendak of sand sculpting"

He’s been called “The Picasso of pumpkin carving” and his pumpkins are stunningly spectacular, but Ray Villafane is also a remarkable sand sculptor. His “Elepha...

July 1, 2016 2 min read

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July 2016

July 2016 For one reason or another (likely to be discussed in a future post), I have been working on an essay that attempts to address cross-cultural aspects o...

July 1, 2016 4 min read

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A Reverence for Rivers (3): Piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights

We only have ONE hydrologic system, dammit! School kids know that (it’s in all their textbooks), geologists, geophysicists, geomorphologists, environmental scie...

June 1, 2016 19 min read

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I am ashamed of my country

I’m not going to apologise for departing, once again, from the theme of this blog. I am appalled that my country has betrayed its younger generation, insulted i...

June 1, 2016 3 min read

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It's the silly season

OK, granular materials behave strangely, but I really don’t think this is going to work. [I have no idea where this picture was taken - it’s been circulating on...

June 1, 2016 1 min read

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It's not just Namibian fairies

Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories abound, and t...

April 1, 2016 6 min read

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April 2016

April 2016 Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories ab...

April 1, 2016 5 min read

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Sand wars continue, unabated

It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images, above, showing ch...

March 1, 2016 4 min read